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ThePhantom of the Opera |
A winner of Best Musical in 1988. It is the longest running musical on current Broadway. It has been more than 18 years since it opened on January 1988. It's a musical drama, based on the classic novel Le Fantome de l'Opera by Gaston Leroux. |  |
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Beauty and the Beast |
Broadway version of Disney's Academy Award-winning animation musical movie, "Beauty and the Beast'. Even it is based on an animation, adults can also enjoy this musical. Beautiful music and surprising special effects are setting a new style of family musical on Broadway. | |
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Rent |
RENT becomes a Mega-hit original American musical in a decade. The story is telling the heart and spirit of a community of young artists who struggle with the soaring hopes and tough realities of today's world. Created by Jonathan Larson based on his own life story. | |
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49th St, B'way-8th Ave $58.75 - $111.25 2 hrs 30 mins |
The story is based on the true crime happened in 1926. It was already made into the Broadway play in December of the same year. One could tell how sensational the crime was at that time. Choreographed by late Bob Fosse. | |
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Minskoff Theatre 45th St B'way-8th Ave $40.00 - $110.00 2 hrs 45 mins |
The Broadway version of Lion King took completely different approach. The dance is elegant, but also dynamic just like modern ballet. This is a great family musical of which entertainment and art form are mixed perfectly. | |
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St. James Theatre 44th St 7-8th Ave. $31.25 - $111.25 2 hrs 40 mins |
It won 12 Tony awards in 2001. which made a record for most Tony awards in its 50 years of history. It is a comedy musical about Broadway version of illegal scam fabricated by a producer and his accountant, who are determined to make it in Broadway show business. | |
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Winter Garden Theatre Broadway, 50-51st St $57.50 - $111.25 2 hrs 30 mins |
In traditional musical, music is composed based on a story. But, in Mamma Mia, the story was created based on songs. Mamma Mia is 70's pop rock group ABBA's 22 great hits woven into romantic musical comedy. | |
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Niel Simon Theatre 52nd St B'way-8th Ave. |
The story is based on 1988 comedy movie of the same title. A dance-loving girl's dream of appearing on TV comes true with her hard work and her family's support. It is an energetic upbeat musical comedy told by 1960's hit pops and rhythm and blues. | |
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Golden Theatre 45th St 7-8th Ave $46.25 - $101.25 2 hrs 10 mins |
Contents of Avenue Q are romance, sex and drugs and are very simillar to the popular ongoing musical, Rent. In fact, producers of Avenue Q, Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller are also producers of Rent. It is not suitable for young children. | |
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Gershwin Theatre 50th St。 B'way-8th Ave $40.00 - $110.00 2 hrs 45 mins |
Based on the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire. As the subtitle, Untold story of the Witches of Oz tells, the story takes place in the Land of the Oz before the heroine of The Wizard of Oz Dorothy arrives from Kansas by tornado. | |
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Monty Python's Spamalot Shubert Theatre 44th St 7-8th Ave $36.25- $111.25 2 hrs 20 mins |
This is the stage version of 1975’s parody film, “Monty Python and the Holly Grail.” Story is the tale of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table searching for Christ’s Holly Grail. However this is a product of Monty Python, who is known for its nonsense humor, there is no flow of story telling in a general sense. |
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Spelling Bee Circle in the Square 50th St B'way-8th Ave $95.00 1 hr 45 mins |
This musical gained great popularity on Off-Broadway, and was promoted to Broadway on May 2, 2005. It is the comedy musical based on a local spelling contest. |
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Jersey Boys August Wilson Theatre 52nd St 7-8th Ave $76.25- $111.25 2 hrs 30 mins |
This is a musical biography, which portrays glory and downfall of white Doo-Wop group, Four Seasons, who climbed up the super stardom with continuous mega hits of, Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry and Walk Like A Man, in 1962. |
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The Color Purple Broadway Theatre Broadway 53rd St $26.25- $111.25 2 hrs 40 mins |
Although this musical is the adaptation of the original novel and 1985 film by director Spielberg, both the movie, with its beautiful image and the musical, with its superb music, depicts “self-awakening; strongly, that? is the creative theme of author Alice Walker. |
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The Drowsy Chaperone Marquis Theatre B'way 45-46th St $26.25- $111.25 1 hr 45 mins |
A lonely man passionately loves musical and is unhappy with today’s musicals. He plays the record of his favorite 1928 musical, “The Drowsy Chaperone.” A world of “ The Drowsy Chaperone,” he has not even seen on stage, comes life colorfully to his small apartment created by his imagination. |
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Tarzan Richard Rodgers Theatre 46th St B'way-8th Ave $51.25- $101.25 2 hrs 30 mins |
It is the adventure spectacle adopted from 1999 Walt Disney’s animated movie, “Tarzan” which is based on 1912 adventure novel “Tarzan of the Apes,” by Edgar Rice Buroughs. |
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